Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mercy of even a benevolent employer. The University should be glad that its employee relations are once more in tune with the times; and undergraduates, the indirect employers, will have to learn at first hand that important economic lesson that efficiency, high standards, and contented employees cost money--and are worth...
...Czechoslovak Question boils down to how the aspirations of Adolf Hitler and his Sudeten stooge Henlein can be achieved without provoking a general European war. Such a war every leading Briton, whether Conservative, Liberal or Laborite wants to avoid at any cost, and thus in London last week Konrad Henlein was feted all but royally...
Visiting bigwigs in Italy who do not seem sufficiently impressed with their surroundings are likely to receive from Mussolini a magnificent illustrated album on the accomplishments of Fascism, reputed to cost $100 a copy. To acquaint the world with the strong joys of Nazi Germany, German propagandists get out an elegant monthly review published in six languages. Last summer, Robert Lange, an energetic young liberal journalist in Paris, decided it was high time for France and the other democracies to begin a similar crying of their wares. He took his idea to Edouard Herriot, who talked to Leon Blum. Government...
...youngest pupil is three, its oldest 49. Fees for lessons range from 50? to $2. Children under ten pay $1 for a piano, violin or cello lesson, and a class in musical theory is thrown in for nothing. Adults pay $2. Actually these fees cover only one-third the cost of the lessons. Another third comes from the school's endowment fund; a final third is raised by public subscription. For specially talented pupils free scholarships are sometimes provided...
...Hankow, China, where Japanese bombs have been making holes in Chinese air fields at a cost of $2,000 each, a wrinkled little Chinese offered airport officials the services of a "machine" that would fill up the holes cheap. His machine: shovels, picks, brooms, wheelbarrows, 5,000 coolies. His fee: 66? a hole...